Re: Try/Catch
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 13, 2015
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Spock said...
As for the tedium of having to check the error code each time, we do this already for calls like open() etc.. I think the error treatment of many calls is context dependent (ie, caller driven) and I personally prefer the freedom of being able to specifically choose when to check any error codes.
One thing try/catch does better is that if you forget to add a check, then the program crashes - so you get fail fast development. Your version doesn't seem to have that (unless you're suggesting that the interpreter crashes when it detects somehow that ERR is set but the caller doesn't check it).
